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Poverty versus biodiversity loss, again

Over at Conservation Bytes, there’s an interesting blog entry on the role of conservation in developing countries. Specifically, the entry points to a recent paper in Biotropica, which is currently freely available here.

Personally, I greatly welcome contributions like those by Erik Meijaard and Douglas Sheil: in an academic context, it’s more difficult and less rewarding, at this stage, to work on real-world problems rather than engage in polarized academic debates. But it’s only if we move beyond polarized debates that we will achieve real conservation progress.